Dispensing container for paper rolls



Nov. 15, 1932. N. G. BEGLE DISPENSING CONTAINER FOR PAPER ROLLS Filed Sept. 4, 1929 Patented Nov. 15, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE m G. BEGLE, O1 GBEENWICE, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOB TO BEBST-I'ORSTER-DIXFIEIID COMPANY, OF DIXIIELD, MAINE, A CORPORATION 01' MAINE msrn'usme oon'ramrra For; rum norms Application fled September 4, 1929. Serial No. 380,283.

This invention relates to cardboard or fibre containers for holding and dispensing waxed paper and the like, and particularly to that type of carton wherein successive portions of a roll of paper within the container may be grasped and unwound from the roll and each succeeding projecting portion of the paper then torn off by forcibly drawing the paper against an opposing cutting edge or blade on the container.

In the case of waxed paper the cutting edge of the container should be toothed or serrated to effect a uniform tearing of the paper, the provision of which edge has hereto ore necessitated the attachment of a serrated strip of metal to the front wall of the container. The metal element not only adds materially to the cost of manufacture of the container, but its presence is hazardous since there is liability of its injuring the hands of the user.

The object of my invention is to provide a cardboard or fibre container which avoids the objections mentioned, and to that end I treat one edge of the container blank with an indurating agent, which edge, when the 7 blank is fashioned in container form, presents a stiff integral cutting edge. In the case of a cutting edge for wax paper the edge of the blank is suitably serrated preparatory to the application of the indurating material.

My invention comprises a cardboard or.

fibre container having the novel characteristic cutting edge, and it comprises also the method of making said container, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawing- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a dispensing carton having a serrated cutting edge embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a transverse section thereof, showing the paper partially withdrawn from the contained roll preparatory to the severance of the paper.-

Fig. 3 is a view of a part of the stiifened serrated cutting ed c.

Fig. 4 is a plan 0 the blank provided with the stiffened serrated cutting edge.

The carton blank 5 shown in Fig. ,4 comprises a sheet of cardboard or similar fibrous material, of any usual or approved form and size, adapted when folded, as on the dotted lines indicated, to provide an elon ated rectangular box 6 for the reception 0 a freely rotatable roll of paper 7 This box includes a swin 'ng cover 8 having an angularly bent free e ge portion 9 which when the cover is closed lies snugly within the box adjacent and parallel with the front wall 10 to aflord a passage-way for the free end of a portion of the paper withdrawn from the roll, as clearly seen in Fig. 2. The free edge of the portion of the blank constituting the front wall 10 is dipped into or otherwise treated with a suitable indurating solution, as indicated at'll, thus providing a stiff and rigid cutting edge against which a portion of the paper, when it is pulled from the roll, as indicated in Fig. 2, can beforcibly drawn downwardly and thereby torn off.

In the case of a serrated cutting edge, which is particularly useful for the efiicient tearing of waxed paper, the wall of the blank is serrated, as at 12, preparatory to the application of the indurating material, each tooth of such edge and the part of the wall at the base of the tooth thus being stifiened integrally to insure its effective severing action on the paper.

While any suitable indurating agent for the cutting edge of the fibrous container may be employed, I prefer to use for this purpose a sulphur-containing indurating agent owing to its moisture and wax resisting properties.

1. The method of making a pasteboard or fibre container, comprising producing a suitable blank, treating one edge'of said blank with an indurating agent, and folding said blank into carton form in such manner that the edge thus treated affords an integral paper-severing portion.

2. A pasteboard container having an element thereof stiifened with an indurating agent to form a paper cutting edge for severing a portion from a roll of paper within the container.

3. A pasteboard container having an element thereof stiffened with a sulphur containing indurating agent to form a paper cutting edge for severing a portion from a roll of paper within the container.

4. A pasteboard container having the free edge of one wall thereof formed with a row of serrations whereof the teeth and the part of the wall at the base of said teeth are stifiened with an indurating agent to provide a paper-cutting edge integral with said wall for severing a portion from a roll of paper within the container.

Signed at New York in the State'of New York this 3rd day of September, A. D. 1929.

NED G. BEGLE. 

